Ploughshares Literary Magazine and the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invite you to the Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series on Thursday, November 15th featuring Adam Zagajewski.

Later in the day will be a reading of Zagajewski's own work at 8 p.m. in the Bill Bordy Theater, 216 Tremont St.

Adam Zagajewski is Poland's foremost living poet and a widely-read essayist. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His latest book of poems is The Unseen Hand.

"His is the quiet voice at the corner of the immense devastations of an obscene century, more intimate than Auden, yet as cosmopolitan as Milosz, Celan, or Brodsky."--Derek Walcott, The New Republic

Sixteen music videos from the Emerson community past and present have been selected for the first annual Silversonic Festival. A free, public screening will be taking place in the Bright Family Screening Room of the Paramount Theater on November 15th at 7PM.

Seating is first come, first serve. We hope to see you there!

There will be a reception afterward in the lobby of the cinema for an opportunity to mingle with some of the musicians and filmmakers!

Ploughshares Literary Magazine and the Department of Writing, Literature and Publishing invite you to the Ploughshares/WLP Reading Series on Thursday, November 15th featuring Adam Zagajewski.

There will also be a Q&A with Zagajewski at 4 p.m. at Emerson College, 150 Boylston St, in the Multipurpose Room.

Adam Zagajewski is Poland's foremost living poet and a widely-read essayist. He has won many prestigious awards, including the Neustadt International Prize for Literature, and is a visiting professor at the University of Chicago. His latest book of poems is The Unseen Hand.

"His is the quiet voice at the corner of the immense devastations of an obscene century, more intimate than Auden, yet as cosmopolitan as Milosz, Celan, or Brodsky."--Derek Walcott, The New Republic